This sync is one-direction only, you are not able to sync back changes from VB to Host (Vagrant developer considers to implement dual-side sync in future, but currently no) Vagrant rsync-auto each time you are running Vagrant boxĪfter each file change it take 2-3 sec. To make automatic sync of changes on Host system to VB you need to run It will not mount synced folder, but will make initial sync of files to local VB storage.Īnd the interesting thing is that VB virtual file system is very fast (unlike shared) and you will see blazing fast performace of app. There are couple ways to handle it : rsyncĬonfig.vm.synced_folder './', '/var/www', type: 'rsync'

(mostly it is because of autolading classes and all hard disk related operations). And you see it as a long response time for a web app

It uses a standard VirtualBox synced folders mechanism, but it is slow. Default VM Shared Foldersīy default when you configure Vagrant like The reason is slow performance of disk system in shared/synced folders. I have started development of PHP web apps with Vagrant and consider that it is a great way to go, but one thing that is annoying - poor performance of web application inside Vagrant.

Vagrant virtualbox shared folder type